Team Room Weekly Q&A – 4.30.2017

BK shared this in his Sunday Newsletter:

It’s been three years in the making, but helicopter crews who flew during the Vietnam War will have their own monument at Arlington National Cemetery.

The Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association and Congress came together for the Vietnam Helicopter Crew Monument Act,
directing the secretary of the Army to place a 2 1/2-foot by 2 1/2-foot
monument at the cemetery in Virginia. It will be placed in Section 35
along Memorial Drive, not far from the Tomb of the Unknowns.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Bob Hesselbein, who flew AH-1 Cobra
gunships in Vietnam, helped spearhead the campaign for the memorial.

In April 2014, Hesselbein, legacy committee chairman of the pilots
association, and other members went to Arlington Cemetery to discuss
donating a tree. Instead, one of the historians suggested donating a
monument.

“We discovered that the greatest concentration of combat casualties
who operated helicopters in the Vietnam War are in Arlington,” he told
Military Times on Thursday.

Photo Credit: Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association

LOL... ditto... just bought 7 new books !!! can't resist when Meyer rec's a book and author... seems I've read all of his...6

Cuz.. should be of the highest priority ma'am... too damned much 'politicking' going on when these families Deserve the utmost Respect...6

Amen...until they All come Home...best...6

Prop.. appreciated my brother...greatly, but SOG was a cut above as they crossed the borders and did a bam bam on the little people and became my Heroes... best....6